March 17, 2009

Who will host Football World Cup 2018 and 2022?

The next World Cup Football 2010 will be hosted by the African country that organized the inaugural T20 World Cup, Africa and the 2014 will be staged by the South American country Brazil. Now, Fifa is busy to schedule the 2018 and 2022. More that 11 countries have submitted their proposals for the bid. Here are nine individual nations and two proposed for jointly organizers. Australia, England, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Qatar, Russia, United States and South Korea, plus joint bids from Belgium-Netherlands and Spain-Portugal submit to contest in the bids. 


World Cup Football is a multi-million dollar occasion. To organize the festival has to spend same. This is not end here; they have to maintain the rule of FIFA. Some of the countries organized the festival before individually or jointly. Only Australia is not in this list as well as the joint bidders Belgium-Netherlands and Spain-Portugal may not in the list too. 


"Australia is part of the fastest growing region in world football and I think that is very important to FIFA. It's very important to us and it's very important to the Asian Football Federation," FFA spokesperson Bonita Mersiades told Sky Sports News


This quote favors Australia but there are many negative on its side. If Australia organizes the multi-million dollar festival then most of the Europeans will miss the matches for the time location? The evidences are; by targeting the European fans most of the TV channels or ads investors invest on it. So, will it lose big revenues? 


Australia is one of the most admired tourism countries of the world. Even it has every facility to host these kinds of festivals. The world cup cricket 1992, Summer Olympics 2000 also successfully organized.